Crossword-Solution: SPALL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spall | n. | The shoulder. |
| Spall | n. | A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge. |
| Spall | v. t. | To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock. |
| Spall | v. t. | To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering. |
| Spall | v. i. | To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPALL | anagram | PALLS |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SPALL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Break into smaller pieces, as ore. | 1 answer |
| Break up, as concrete | 1 answer |
| Ceramic chip | 1 answer |
| Chip of rock | 1 answer |
| Chip with a hammer. | 1 answer |
| Flake or chip of stone. | 1 answer |
| Ore chip | 1 answer |
| Rock chip | 1 answer |
| Stone splinter | 1 answer |
| Timothy of "Mr. Turner" | 1 answer |
| Chip of stone | 2 answers |
| Stone chip | 2 answers |
| Taper | 21 answers |
| chip | 21 answers |
| Corrode | 22 answers |
| Fragment | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPALL (5)
The quarrymen, placed at the most likely spots, were ordered to spall rock for specimens: with their usual perversity, they picked up, when unwatched, broken bits of useless stuff; they spent the whole day dawdling over three camel-loads, and they protested against being obliged to carry the sacks to their tents.
Spall just as they were getting comfortable; she was always ferreting in Sarah's cupboard for a pair to take to him.
This weak test on a square column is one of the slender props on which is based the conclusion that longitudinal rods add to the strength of a concrete column; but the weakness of the square concrete column is due to the inherent weakness of brittle material in compression when there are sharp corners which may spall off.
Some which are so little altered from the original form of the rough flake or spall that they would be classed as "rejects" if found about a flint workshop have a smoothness or "hand polish" which denotes much service.
Etym: [See Spale & Spall.] (Shipbuilding) Defn: One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross- pawl.
Quotes with SPALL (1)
I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1948–2016).